Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 18:12:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> Cc: Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl> Subject: Re: if_tap unaligned access problem Message-ID: <20050502180353.T787@odysseus.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <20050428165026.GG747@empiric.icir.org> References: <20050428135120.GB21428@cell.sick.ru> <427111BF.2050607@savvis.net> <20050428165026.GG747@empiric.icir.org>
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On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > jmg's suggestion of bringing in the NetBSD patches to allow the entire > network stack to be compiled with unaligned accesses (for those platforms > which support it) is interesting because it can simplify or eliminate > some of the acrobatics needed in network drivers to deal with the mbuf > alignment. I'm too lazy to benchmark, but I suspect that having the ethernet code shift the packet backwards by two bytes after it strips off the ethernet header is going to be faster than requiring ip_input to allocate a new mbuf for each received packet. Such a change would also ensure that we don't break all the other protocols that jmg didn't touch in his patch. Mike "Silby" Silbersackhome | help
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